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Although based in Hong Kong, Marcel Fenez has a worldwide remit as the Global Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entertainment & Media Practice. Responsible for launching the PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong Entertainment, Media and Communications group in 1995, Marcel led the Asia Pacific Entertainment & Media practice from 1998 and in 2007 was appointed Global Managing Partner

Running notes from on stage interview of Bill Roedy, CEO and Chairman MTV International. LOCALIZATION“MTV launched into localized content ‘back before it was cool’”.“At the time, this was controversial because of opening local offices, transponders and all the expense. Now the local strategy has hooked us into many centers of cool around the world.” “Our

Stunning complacency shown by pay TV industry executives following a great panel by Steve Marcopoto, the Hong Kong-based president of Turner Broadcasting System Asia. Steve’s panel featured four high school students talking about their media consumption habits and afterwards the audience was polled to find out whether they thought Asia’s pay TV industry was doing

Anyone eager for a little cheeriness amid the financial maelstrom would have found a relatively high level of optimism at this morning’s panel on media investment at the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia convention. Moderated by May Lee of Lotus Media House, the panelists fought the perception that Asia and the world are

As the Hong Kong-based president and managing director of TBS Asia-Pacific, Steve Marcopoto oversees all programming, network development, advertising and distribution sales, marketing and promotion for Turner Broadcasting and its networks and internet services, including the CNN news group, Cartoon Network, Pogo, Boomerang, TCM, and CETV in the Asia Pacific region His CV includes serving

Attending the CASBAA annual convention on Cable and Satellite industry in Asia. Some notes from today, the first day. Will update periodically. UPDATE: Follow conference on Twitter, David Wolf is also updating with the #casbaa tag. Marcel Fenez of PwCAsia’s pay tv had 17 percent growth last year to 300 million subscribers, 62 million of

Caught up with Simon Twiston Davies, CEO of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, for his assessment of Asia’s pay TV industry on the eve of the annual CASBAA convention here in Hong Kong. I will liveblog next week’s convention. Good news for TV in Asia:- Advertising revenue remains stable (for now). Historically:-

Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...